Eisaku Satō

Eisaku Satō ( Satō Eisaku , March 27th 1901 - June 3rd 1975) was a Japanese politician.

He was the 61e, 62e and 63e Prime Minister for the Japan, respectively between the November 9th 1964 and the February 17th 1967, between the February 17th 1967 and the January 14th 1970, and between the January 14th 1970 and the July 7th 1972.

Biography

Eisaku Sato was born with Tabuse in the prefecture from Yamaguchi.

He studied then the right to the imperial University of Tōkyō which will become the Université of Tōkyō. At the end of its studies in 1924 it enters as civil servant to the ministry for the Railroad.

It Maria in 1926 with Hiroko which gave him two children: Ryutaro and Shinji. Its principal hobbies was the golf, fishing, and to carry out with his wife the traditional ceremony of the.

During its career with the ministry it occupied of the important stations such as director of the Office of the Railroads of Osaka of 1944 with 1946 and even the post of vice minister in charge for transport of 1947 with 1948.

It carried out its first contact with the political world in 1948 when it was charged with the post of Secretary as a chief near the second cabinet Shigeru Yoshida.

It entered in 1949 to the Diet, and climbs the levels gradually by occupying various ministerial positions.

Political career

From February 1949 at April 1950 it takes part in the Council of research near the public policy within the Party Democrat-Liberal PLD.

He becomes then general secretary of the PLD (April 1950 - May 1951 and of January 1953 at July 1954.

He occupies then various ministerial positions, such as Minister for the Stations and Transport July 1951 in July 1952.

Minister for Construction, in load of the development of Hokkaido October 1952 - February 1953.

Then Minister for Finance of June 1958 at July 1960 and Minister for the foreign trade and industry July 1961 at July 1962. And again minister in charge for the development of Hokkaido and minister in charge for Sciences and Technologies like charged with the 18th Olympic Games with Tokyo with July 1963 in June 1964.

Thus, he is a politician of experiment having had high responsibilities in many fields, when he reaches the presidency of PLD and the post of Prime Minister while succeeding Hayato Ikeda (which resigns for health reason) on November 9th 1964.

He will be Prime Minister of 1964 at July 7th 1972, which makes of it the longest mandate of Prime Minister for the history of Japan.

Prime Minister and opinions

He will be thus Prime Minister during nearly 8 years.

He will endeavor to improve the relations with the other countries of the Pacific. Its foreign politics will be to support the good relationships with the other countries. While reinforcing the peaceful position of the Japanese Constitution, it will thus intervene in many regional litigations (as between the India and the Pakistan, the Indonesia and the Malaysia) to allow a peaceful coexistence in the area. Also in foreign policy it engages so that Japan never has the atomic bomb and signs in 1970 the treaty of nonproliferation of the nuclear weapons.

However it will always adopt mistrust with respect to the Popular republic of China and will visit Taiwan in 1967.

It will be also often aligned on the the United States except when Richard Nixon visits the China.

There will remain also popular thanks to the economic good health of Japan for this period.

After three mandates, he will refuse to represent himself for a fourth mandate, his faction within the party will support Takeo Fukuda rather but it is popular Kakuei Tanaka which will become Prime Minister.

End-of-life

He accepted the Nobel Prize of peace in 1974 for the peaceful foreign politics followed by his country and for his role in the treaty of nonproliferation of the atomic weapons; it receipt its price in company of Sean MacBride.

He dies the following year on June 3rd 1975 with Tokyo at the 74 years age.

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